Public Education Quotes - Page 5

• We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

  Frank Rizzo

  Teacher, Couple, Excellence

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• Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.

  Herbert Hoover

  Suffering, Benefits, Return

  Herbert Hoover, Arnold S. Rice, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1971). “Herbert Hoover, 1874-1964; chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair.

  Matt Damon

  School, Mean, Kids

  "Matt Damon: where did it all go right for the leftwing activist, devoted dad and intelligent action star?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2013.

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• Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated the Scopes trial within a much broader context than any scholar before him. Trying Biology also demonstrates how ideologues have used differing interpretations of the Scopes trial to advance their agendas. By situating the trial within this much broader framework, the author has significantly enlarged our understanding of the conversations between religion and science in twentieth-century America.

  Randall Balmer

  America, Understanding, Marketing

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• This is an historic day for American public education and for our nation as we begin the journey to level the academic playing field for every student. State Boards of Education are ready to play an active role in this process and some have already started the progression of adoption. We are eager to move this agenda forward.

  William Bradley Bryant

  Educational, Moving, Journey

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• I am not a patient person. My friends and colleagues will confirm this. But, frankly, we should all feel a little more impatient with the state of public education in America today.

  Eli Broad

  Patient Person, America, Littles

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• I was just your average hockey mom, and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better.

  Sarah Palin

  Mom, Kids, Hockey

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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• Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Children, Rights, Giving

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• The British use a system where the profits a corporation reports to shareholders is what they pay taxes on. Whereas in America we require corporations to keep two sets of books, one for shareholders and one for the IRS, and the IRS records are secret. For publicly-traded companies, the British system would tend to align the interests of the government with the interests of the company because the company wants to report the biggest possible profit. Though, all wealthy countries have high taxes as wealth requires lots of common goods, from clean water to public education to a justice system.

  David Cay Johnston

  Country, Book, Justice

  "Our Indefensible Tax System". Interview With Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. April 11, 2006.

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• I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.

  Michelle Rhee

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• I started off as a young lawyer working against discrimination against African-American children in schools and in the criminal justice system. I worked to make sure that kids with disabilities could get a public education, something that I care very much about. I have worked with Latinos - one of my first jobs in politics was down in south Texas registering Latino citizens to be able to vote. So I have a deep devotion to making sure that an every American feels like he or she has a place in our country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Jobs, Children

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• We also call for free public education going forward. We know it pays for itself.

  Jill Stein

  Pay, Knows

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Being here in Detroit, our public education in this city is - it's shocking. And the oversight of it and the oversight of the teachers and the funding is nonexistent, and the priority that's put on it is so low.

  Mitch Albom

  Teacher, Cities, Priorities

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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• As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.

  Steve Martin

  School, Boards, Purpose

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• Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Quality, Mexico

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, chomsky.info. August 15, 2011.

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• Public education must be viewed from the lens of providing each child with the learning environment that best meets his or her needs. If we can send a low-income child to a parochial school, knowing that his odds of attending college will increase as a result, then that should be our mission.

  Jeb Bush

  Children, School, College

  "Jeb Bush Speaks Out". Education Next Interview, educationnext.org. November 12, 2014.

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• All art is based on nonconformity ... Without nonconformity we would have had no Bill of Rights or Magna Carta, no public education system, no nation upon this continent, no continent, no science at all, no philosophy, and considerably fewer religions.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Philosophy, Rights

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• Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Agency, Population

  "Higher Education Under Attack". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• You can't just provide power, you also need public education.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Country, New York, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, College, Economy Today

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.

  Ai-jen Poo

  Believe, Thinking, Safety

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• Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.

  Allen W. Wood

  Order, Action, Horror

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• American education will be determined by the quality of American public education, and that's public schools that are available.

  Mark Shields

  School, Quality, Determined

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We hear talk now about reforming public education. There are billions of dollars at stake for such a reform. But I have not heard Arne Duncan, who is the U.S. Education Secretary, mention once the civic illiteracy in the country.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, Reform, Dollars

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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